Sledgehammer Games says that their first priority is returning to dedicated servers. His comment has been down voted 270 times by Reddit members furious at the lack of communication by Sledgehammer, amidst a cluster of issues - including persistent server problems - plaguing the game's release period. [Full Article...]

It is a chief concern for a group of House Republicans who face re-election battles next year in high-tax, typically Democratic-leaning states such as California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and MA. This has resulted in a sharp focus on finding tax changes that can produce new revenue to the US Treasury to make up for cuts elsewhere, creating a zero-sum approach to determining what provision... [Full Article...]

Morocco needed only a draw in their last group game to finish top of the Group C standings in the African preliminaries , ahead of the Ivorians, who had to win to clinch a fourth successive World Cup finals appearance. For Tunisia, the barren draw they recorded against Libya on Saturday was enough to get them another World Cup ticket after they narrowly missed out at the Brazil 2014 edition. [Full Article...]

The UK had always resisted the idea of joint EU defense, fearing some kind of big "European army", but the country's planned exit from the bloc has removed that hurdle, allowing 23 other EU countries to move forward. European Union officials insist this is not just bureaucratic co-operation, but real investment that will help develop Europe's defence industry and spur research and development in m... [Full Article...]

He said that he hoped Russian Federation would also "be a tremendous help". "I want to solve North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, terrorism, and Russian Federation can greatly help!" The ministry had been condemning Trump's visit to South Korea, accusing the USA president of "reckless remarks" and warmongering on his trip to the peninsula. [Full Article...]

Almost 500 college and university officials reported the overall number of enrolled students was flattening, with an average decrease of 7 percent in the number of newly enrolled worldwide students for 2017-18. Putting the numbers into context - where are the declines happening? . "But it is critical for USA institutions to set strategic goals and be proactive in reaching out to students and fami... [Full Article...]

Razaq Khan told The Hindu . Ummar Khan's body was found on the railway tracks on Friday evening. 42-year-old Tahir Muhammad got admitted to a hospital with severed injuries whereas the other, 28-year-old Javed Khan is missing. Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stern warning, a group of cow vigilantes have again killed a member of the minority community in Rajasthan's Alwar district. [Full Article...]

The Trump administration's previous HHS secretary, Dr. Tom Price, resigned on September 29 after reports emerged he had traveled on chartered planes-for work and personal time-at the cost of at least $400,000 to taxpayers. As recently as a month ago, the Republican president complained , "The drug companies, frankly, are getting away with murder" - a phrase he's repeated a couple of times. [Full Article...]

However, the statement stated that the forces effectively responded to the attack and killed 10 fleeing terrorist and wounded several others. Pakistan military has also confirmed the attack on security check post in Bajaur Agency. Independent verification was not possible as the area is largely closed off to reporters. The ISPR in August had announced the conclusion of Khyber-4 Operation in Kh... [Full Article...]

Carroll and her roommates weren't in the apartment at the time of the collapse. A party turned into terror and chaos when the third floor of a student housing complex collapsed in Texas, CBS Dallas-Fort Worth reports. "We've called and said, 'It looks like the ceiling is going to cave in, ' so I feel like with us saying that, there could've been more that was done", she said. [Full Article...]

On Saturday, the Tribunal had allowed the Delhi Government to roll out the "controversial" Odd-Even scheme on Delhi roads, from November 13 to 17, to ease the air pollution situation but refused to grant exemption to women and two-wheelers. [Full Article...]

The Redmi Note 4 comes with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 625 processor, which has eight Cortex-A53 cores, out of which four cores run at a maximum clock speed of 2GHz, while the rest of the cores run at 1.4GHz. The Android Nougat running Redmi Note 4 has a 13-megapixel camera sensor at the back and a 5-megapixel camera sensor at the front. Xiaomi recently announced that it has been able to sell 10 ... [Full Article...]

According to the police, Tolk got out of his Toyota Camry on the West Side Highway at West 20th Street late Saturday after a pedestrian hit the passenger side of the auto with a hockey stick. A man who saw the altercation followed Tolk until he crashed and called 911. The man was rushed to Lenox Hill Hospital where he died. "The guy put his foot on his chest; held him on the ground". [Full Article...]

Two variants of Xbox One X was made available at launch - Xbox One X Standard Edition and the Project Scorpio Edition: most of the sales were for the special edition, about 55% of the overall launch week sales. Microsoft's solid sales start will have been encouraged by a busy release schedule which has seen the likes of Call of Duty: WW2 , Assassin's Creed Origins , Fifa 18 and Forza Mo... [Full Article...]

The shark, which has a long, slim, snake-like body, is "little known in terms of its biology or environment", according to the scientists, because it lives at great depths in the Atlantic and off the coasts of Australia, New Zealand and Japan. [Full Article...]

Some Google Pixel 2 XL users are reporting an issue with their touchscreen not responding to touches around the edges. With Fused Video Stabilization on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL , you no longer have to carefully place the phone before recording, hold it firmly over the entire recording session, or carry a gimbal mount everywhere. [Full Article...]

Bong Young-shik, an expert on regional relations at South Korea's Yonsei University, said: " China's economic retaliation only pushed Korea closer into the trilateral alliance between Japan and the US". A flurry of missile tests from North Korea this year have raised the likelihood of South Korea using the US-built Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system - something China ... [Full Article...]

In a commentary released Saturday, the Korean Central News Agency, North Korea's official media, criticized the United States for "heightening military tension in the Asia-Pacific region". He was wounded from North Korean firing and was being taken to a hospital, it said. North Korea has launched a stinging attack on US President Donald Trump following his visit to South Korea. [Full Article...]

Blundering Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is thought to have added five years to her jail term after he said that she had been "training journalists". She was detained at the airport in Tehran in April 2016 on her way back to the United Kingdom from visiting family with Gabriella, her then 22-month-old daughter. [Full Article...]

As US President Donald Trump prepares to meet leaders at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in the Philippines capital of Manila on 12 and 13 November 2017, Amnesty is calling on him to condemn President Duterte's murderous "war on drugs", and push him to investigate the unlawful killing of thousands of people around the country. [Full Article...]